Buckminster Fuller was a very insightful and interesting man.  He was coined a Futurist or Utopian by others but really he was a humanist. He spent much of his life finding sustainable ways for humans to continue living on earth.  One of his great achievements was the design and construction of the geodesic dome, which is arranges like a carbon molecule or bucky ball ( a term he labeled ).  Fuller was a man with endless imagination at a time when the world could sustain a great mind. Unfortunately Like many great minds his only limits were trust and money, two things Americans give up rarely.  Late in his life, after working on his concepts for several decades, Fuller achieved considerable public visibility. He travelled the world giving lectures, and received numerous honorary doctorates. Most of his inventions, however, never made it into production. Often dismissed as a hopeless utopian he was strongly criticized in most fields he tried to influence, including architecture. His proponents, on the other hand, continue to assert that his work has not yet received the attention that it deserves